A company representative said the company had rented the 70 hectares from the state and had solved any potential land disputes by “giving fair compensation.”
Local authorities and wildlife protection groups took the lion cub on June 27, and sent it to Phnom Tamao Zoological Park, after videos surfaced on social media application TikTok showing the lion in the central Phnom Penh villa.
U.N. researchers say drought has affected more people around the world in the past four decades than any other natural disaster. The U.N. report warns the impact of the climate-driven drought emergency on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet will worsen in the coming years.
On June 2, Phnom Penh City Hall issued an eviction notice for residents of floating houses, illegal fish farms and small houseboats on the Tonlé Sap, the Mekong and a third river, the nearby Bassac.
Residents living in floating homes were given one week to move while authorities would not be responsible for any actions taken.
They urge U.S. and ASEAN regional bloc support for addressing threats to the Mekong River and call for improved water data sharing by countries all along the river.
Activists have been pushing the government to allow groups like the Prey Lang Community Network, which ran forest patrols till last year, to monitor illegal logging activities in the protected area.
In recent years, the flows to Southeast Asia's largest lake have at times been delayed, a factor blamed on drought and hydropower dams upstream on the Mekong.
Its hydropower boom has altered the vital Mekong River.
The deforestation alerts showed widespread forest clearings during 2020 and early 2021. In 2019, Prey Lang lost 7,511 hectares of tree cover, an increase of 73% compared to the previous year, according to the University of Maryland.
In Cambodia, the MRC said water levels in Stung Treng and Kratie province fluctuated between -0.02 m and 0.05 m, but that the levels remained higher than the long-term average.
The five, including Ouch Leng, a 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, were detained by rangers on Friday for being inside the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary without permission.
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